Helping Hand – 7 DOF Haptic Robotic Arm Project Group 10 – Spring 2013

The purpose of the senior design project, from the course description of objectives is "To provide students a complete design experience, including the necessity to set design goals and objectives, integrate knowledge, exercise engineering judgment, plan to meet a budget and schedule, to work as a team member, and to communicate in writing." To accomplish these objectives our group, Helping Hand, designed a teleoperated master-slave 7 DOF robot arm which motion tracks a human operator's arm motion including openclose hand tracking by the end-effector. The project is exclusively focused on the electronics and software to control an electrically operated robotic arm. Stock mechanical robot arms were utilized as needed to accomplish the project. Index Terms — Haptic interfaces, Human robot interaction, Humanoid robots, Intelligent robots, Intelligent systems, Robotics and automation, Robotic assembly, Robot control, Robot motion, Robot programming, Robot sensing systems, Tele-operators, Tele-robotics.